Born under an inauspicious moon, baby fish delay settlement on coral reefs
Parents’ choices about when to breed have lifelong consequences for offspring. For the sixbar wrasse, the flexibility of babies to delay their critical swim towards adulthood frees adults to spawn more often, ecologists report. A delay of a few days could have life long consequences. In a species that can choose its sex, consequences could include which fish grows large enough to compete as a male and produce the most offspring. …read more
